Lychgate And Attached Churchyard Walls To All Saints Church

SK 42 NW PARISH OF ASTON-UPON-TRENT SHARDLOW ROAD 4/5 (west Side) Lychgate and Attached 10.11.67 Churchyard Walls to All Saints Church GV II Lychgate and attached walls. c1916, Dec style lychgate and C19 walls. Ashlar and timber with steeply pitched graduated stone slate, half hipped roof, plus ornately carved bargeboards and pendants. Lychgate has stone plinth with four large octagonal timber corner posts, each with a frieze of blind quatrefoils to top, supporting large moulded brackets for the eaves. To the centre there are three moulded four-centred arches, with pierced spandrels, supporting the roof, which are in turn supported by piers resting on the plinth, each of which has a small attached nookshaft actually carrying the arch. The outer edges of the plinths have stone walls on, creating a bench-like arrangement. These carry an arcade of four-centred arches with pierced quatrefoils over. There are similar arches and quatrefoils between the corner piers and those supporting the roof. The central tie beam has inscribed on it 'In memory of James Shuttleworth Holden, Rector 1869-1916. Erected by his friends and parishioners'. Above there is a simple collared roof and in each gable there is a pierced timber screen. Attached to either side there are random rubble walls which enclose the churchyard.

Listing NGR: SK4149729391